Sheikh Ṣabāḥ al-Aḥmad al-Jābir al-Ṣabāḥ

emir of Kuwait

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King ʿAbdullah II of Jordan (second from left) accompanies Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah of Kuwait (right) upon the latter’s arrival in Amman, Jordan, on May 17, 2010. It was the first visit by a Kuwaiti ruler in 20 years.

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role in history of Kuwait

...briefly acceded as emir. Although considered too ill to rule, Sheikh Saʿd, who had been crown prince since the late 1970s, sparked a political crisis when he refused to abdicate in favour of
Sheikh Ṣabāḥ al-Aḥmad al-Jābir al-Ṣabāḥ, the country’s former foreign minister and already its de facto leader. The succession crisis was...